General Search

Display Options

After opening a collection or running a search, you can view results in various ways:

Small images with a simple caption

List without images

Full details about a specific record

Navigation

The title of each result page gives you a context for the group of records you are viewing:

HighlightsSpecifies that you opened a collection from the left menu; the name of the selected collection displays in the title.

Object SearchSpecifies that you ran a search for objects; your search criterion displays in the title.

See AlsoSpecifies that you clicked a link in a page to view related records; see below for more details.

In the upper right corner of every result page, eMuseum displays the total number of records in the result set,
and specifies which records are displayed on the current page. For example, you may see 'Results 7 to 12 of 54'
when you are on the second page of a set of 54 records.

On the line below, you have options for moving through the record set. Click the or
buttons to move forward or backward one page at a time. Click or
to move forward by ten pages at a time. Click or
to jump to the beginning or end of the listings. Or to select a particular page, click on its number (page 11 is highlighted in the example below).

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Change view:

Related Records

On the detail page for specific records ( ), eMuseum may present you with links to related information. Click these links to begin wandering through the objects, following paths that interest you.

The right vertical bar of each detail page contains a "See Also..." panel with images of related objects, if there are any. This bar is designed to help you easily find other objects of interest to you. Click an image to open the detail page for that object.

Some names and terms within the detail page may also be hyperlinked. For example:

Click a person's name in the object detail page to open a page of biographical information.